Where we tend to talk about the recent past a lot
Today was the tender deadline for arbitration eligible players. The San Francisco Giants had decisions to make for three players: RHP JT Brubaker, LHP Joey Lucchesi, and catcher Andrew Knizner. Earlier today, Knizner was designated for assignment to make room for OF Joey Wiemer, and at the deadline the Giants non-tendered Lucchesi and held on […]
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Minutes ago, the San Francisco Giants announced that they have acquired outfielder Joey Wiemer from the Miami Marlins for cash considerations. The 6’4”, 226-pound right handed hitter was drafted out of the University of Cincinnati in the 4th round of the 2020 draft by the Milwaukee Brewers and made his major league debut for them […]
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We’ve reached an exciting milestone in the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List: a top 10! Over the next few months, we’ll rank the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization, but every top prospects list begins with a top 10 … and a top 10 is what we’ve got. Our top […]
4 months ago | 4 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! Since the season ended, the McCovey Chronicles staff have been doing player reviews that go over each member of the San Francisco Giants’ 2025 season. Today, I’m going to continue our community reviews where we ask you all to weigh in on how you feel like each player did this year […]
4 months ago | 7 reads
The San Francisco Giants still haven’t finalized their staff, but the pieces are all coming together, and a trend is continuing: they’re hiring a lot of people that new manager Tony Vitello is comfortable with. A few days after news broke that Justin Meccage (who didn’t have a prior relationship with Vitello) was going to […]
4 months ago | 8 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! Tonight is the inaugural draft for the Women’s Professional Baseball League! So I just wanted to share all the details again so people can follow along if they want to. The draft will begin at 5:00 p.m. PT and consist of six rounds, with each team drafting five players per round. […]
4 months ago | 1 read
It took two attempts to get the voting sorted out, but we finally moved forward with the next chapter of the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List. By the time the next Minor League Baseball season starts, we will have ranked the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization … and within […]
4 months ago | 2 reads
When you post on SB Nation, we don’t want you to miss all the conversations and responses that follow. So starting today, whenever a user replies to your comment or to your post on the Feed, you’ll see a notification at the top right corner of the page. And of course, this means that when […]
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Good morning, baseball fans! The Women’s Professional Baseball League has announced that their inaugural season in 2026 will feature all teams playing in a neutral location. Unfortunately that location is 2,000 miles away from San Francisco. Despite the league featuring teams from San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Boston, it was announced this week […]
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The 2025 season was arguably the best in recent memory for the San Francisco Giants farm system, but most of the work has happened at lower levels. As such, the development hasn’t left too many players on the precipice of the Majors, and that was on display Tuesday, with a critical decision the Giants made. […]
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Fansided’s Robert Murray reports that, according to his sources, the San Francisco Giants have hired Justin Meccage (pronounced “Message”) to be their pitching coach in 2025. Meccage is a 45-year old former Yankee farmhand with a diverse coaching and development background that probably stood out for the similarly well-traveled Tony Vitello. He was drafted by […]
4 months ago | 1 read
Boy, do Yankees fans not have the stomach for Devin Williams. Is he a good idea for the Giants? Jeff Passan seems to think so. And earlier today, Jon Morosi — who has probably lost his credibility after his reporting on Shohei Ohtani — fueled rumors that the San Francisco Giants have interest in this […]
4 months ago | 2 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! The hot stove is starting to show signs of life, which means the headlines about who the San Francisco Giants are absolutely, definitely going to target in the offseason are starting to roll in. Love to see the rumor mill at work. Instead of focusing on the rumors, though, I wanted […]
4 months ago | 1 read
Well, we had a good opening run. After successfully making it through eight names in the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, our quest to rank the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization finally hit a snag. And it was the same snag that we’ve hit so many times in the […]
4 months ago | 1 read
Good morning, baseball fans! Since the season ended, the McCovey Chronicles staff have been doing player reviews that go over each member of the San Francisco Giants’ 2025 season. Today, I’m going to continue our community reviews where we ask you all to weigh in on how you feel like each player did this year […]
4 months ago | 1 read
Plenty of baseball fans are not romantic about baseball, but for the rest of us, there’s a romance in every season. And what’s romance but hopes and dreams? A week before the start of the regular season, I listed out my hopes and dreams for the San Francisco Giants in 2025 and did a check-in […]
4 months ago | 2 reads
Good morning, baseball fans! Things may not have gone exactly how we hoped they would for the San Francisco Giants in the 2025 season. That said, the starting pitchers were pretty dang solid. The Giants’ social media team agrees, which is why they posted a review of some of the best starts from Logan Webb, […]
4 months ago | 1 read
Good morning, baseball fans! It’s Saturday, so I thought we’d go with a bit of a fun community question. One thing I have always been extremely envious of baseball players for is the fact that they have entrance music. Whether they’re coming up to bat, or warming up on the mound, their presence is announced […]
4 months ago | 3 reads
We’re still waiting for the San Francisco Giants to sign their first free agent of the offseason, but that doesn’t stop us from having fun things to talk about, because the 2026 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List marches on, as we move closer and closer to ranking the top 44 prospects in the Giants […]
4 months ago | 9 reads
The San Francisco Giants have kept their cards remarkably close to their chest during Buster Posey’s year-plus tenure. The Willy Adames signing a year ago was surprising, and the Rafael Devers trade was downright shocking. On the surface, Posey and the ownership crew have been a little bit more open going into their second offseason. […]
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2025 stats (with SFG): 27 G, 25.1 IP, 3.91 ERA / 2.66 FIP, 24 K, 10 BB, 0 HR, 1.50 WHIP, 52.7 GB%, +0.5 fWAR Waiver claims aren’t lottery tickets like prospects are, they’re an arcade game. A player’s history is the same as staring and watching the high score screen on a loop or […]
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Pirates starter Paul Skenes took home the 2025 National League Cy Young Award in an unanimous decision. This isn’t really news. There is no surprise here. The hardware had his name etched on it in September. Skenes followed up his Rookie of the Year campaign by leading all of baseball with a 1.97 ERA over […]
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2025 stats: 125 G (463 PA), .241 /.307/ .379, 16 HR, 71 RBI, .164 ISO, 7.3 K%, 19 BB%, 95 wRC+, -0.2 fWAR I don’t know Wilmer Flores. Have never met him, will never meet him, but he’s my friend. He’s our friend. And I say that as someone who prefers to leave celebrities alone […]
4 months ago | 1 read
Good morning, baseball fans! We have an argument for the ages today. Ever since Madison Bumgarner entered Game 7 of the 2014 World Series in relief for the San Francisco Giants, managers everywhere have been attempting to copy that strategy, to varying levels of success. We saw it again in this year’s World Series Game […]
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Former MLB manager Joe Maddon went on KNBR and said he considered the San Francisco Giants hiring Tony Vitello to be “insulting.” Current broadcaster Duane Kuiper said he found Maddon’s insulting comments, well, insulting. Joe Maddon won the World Series with the Chicago Cubs in 2016 and reached the 2008 series with the Tampa Bay […]
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